Format:
Book
Author:
Powers, Richard, 1957- author.
Title:
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.
Edition:
[Norton paperback edition].
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
©2018
Description:
502 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
Nine interlocking fables of activism, resistance, and the vast power of nature ranging from antebellum New York through the Vietnam War to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest. Strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together for a last, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
Subjects:
Trees -- Fiction.
Genre:
Nature fiction.
Notes:
Pulitzer Prize, 2019: Fiction.
Contents:
Roots -- Nicholas Hoel -- Mimi Ma -- Adam Appich -- Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly -- Douglas Pavlicek -- Neelay Mehta -- Patricia Westerford -- Olivia Vandergriff -- Trunk -- Crown -- Seeds.
ISBN:
9780393356687 (paperback)
039335668X (paperback)
Other Number:
1075612772
System Availability:
15
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3699193
Call Number:
813/.54
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
14